Professor Lawrence Sherman

Research

Professor Sherman's research interests are in the fields of crime prevention, evidence-based policing, restorative justice, police practices and experimental criminology. He has conducted field experiments, for example, on finding more effective ways to reduce homicide, gun violence, domestic violence, robbery, burglary, and other crime problems, in collaboration with such agencies as the Metropolitan, Northumbria and Thames Valley Police, London's Crown Courts, HM Prisons, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales, and the National Probation Service. Since 1995, he has been co-directing a program of prospective longitudinal experiments in restorative justice involving some 2500 offenders and 2000 crime victims. Since 2005, he has been developing new tools for predicting murder among offenders on probation and parole in Philadelphia, as well as randomized trials of intensive services among highest-risk offenders.

Publications

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Recent Publications

Please find below a list of recent publications by Professor Sherman in PDF format:

Rowley Transcript, BBC Radio 4, 12th January 2023
Commissioner Speech at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, 10th January 2023
The Rise of Evidence-Based Policing, Crime and Justice, Volume 42: Crime and Justice in America: 1975-2025
Increased homicide victimization of suspects arrested for domestic assault: A 23-year follow-up of the Milwaukee Domestic Violence Experiment (MilDVE) Lawrence W. Sherman & Heather M. Harris
"Offender Desistance Policing (ODP): Less Prison and More Evidence in Rehabilitating Offenders" in In T. Bliesener, A. Beelmann, & M. Stemmler, eds. Antisocial behavior and crime: Contributions of developmental and evaluation research to prevention and intervention (pp. 199-218). Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe Publishing.An Integrated Theory of Hot Spots Patrol Strategy Implementing Prevention by Scaling Up and Feeding back
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Professor Sherman in the Media

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